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Noida, Aug 28 (PTI) Suspected dowry victim Nikki Bhati died due to burns in a gas cylinder explosion at home, officials said on Thursday, citing statements of doctors and nurses of the private hospital where she was first admitted. According to a memo from the hospital where Bhati was taken to on August 21, she had "suffered severe burns in a gas cylinder explosion at home" and was brought there in a critical condition by a cousin of her husband, Vipin Bhati. "The statement of the doctors and ...Read More >
Mumbai, Aug 25 (PTI) The ED has arrested the director of a Pune-based real estate company from a five-star hotel in Mumbai along with Rs 9.5 lakh in cash and gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs 2.3 crore in a bank loan fraud case. Amit Ashok Thepade was taken into custody on Sunday from the hotel in south Mumbai, where he had been staying for the past two months. A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court has sent him to ED custody for five days, the federal probe agency said in ...Read More >
Officials confirmed that unidentified attackers opened fire at the Gurugram residence of YouTuber and Bigg Boss OTT 2 winner Elvish Yadav in the early hours of Sunday. As reported by India Today, the shooting took place between 5 am and 6 am, when three men on motorcycles allegedly fired multiple rounds before quickly fleeing the spot. Over two dozen bullets were discharged during the assault, according to initial findings. Citing sources, India Today stated that Yadav himself was not at home d ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI) Observing that persons regardless of popularity are equal before the law, the Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled the bail granted to actor Darshan and other accused in the Renukaswamy murder case. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan set aside the Karnataka High Court order, saying it suffers from various infirmities. The top court directed the authorities to take Darshan and other accused into custody forthwith and ordered that the trial be conducted expe ...Read More >
On January 23, the top court set up an SIT to probe allegations of "excess payments". On Wednesday, while considering the report of that SIT, the bench directed setting up of a new SIT comprising three IPS officers. THE SUPREME Court on Wednesday ordered directed the Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the alleged "collusion" between some land owners and officials of the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) ...Read More >
Thane, Aug 14 (PTI) A fire broke out at a cafe located in a multi-storey residential building in Maharashtra's Thane city early Thursday morning, following which 35 persons were evacuated from the structure, officials said. No casualty has been reported as of now, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said. The blaze erupted in the Parsik Cafe located on the ground floor of the six-storey building at Kharegaon in Kalwa (West), he said. The disaster managemen ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Uttar Pradesh Police to conduct a preliminary inquiry into alleged collusion between Noida officials and builders over inflated land acquisition compensation to farmers. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi formed a new SIT, comprising three IPS officers, which will replace the earlier SIT. The bench was hearing a case wherein it had ordered an SIT probe while dealing with the anticipa ...Read More >
The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches on Rohtas Projects Ltd. in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, investigating a money laundering case involving alleged investor fraud of Rs 248 crore. The probe, triggered by multiple FIRs, focuses on recovering assets from the company's promoters, Piyush Rastogi, Paresh Rastogi and Deepak Rastogi, who have reportedly been absconding for four years. The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday conducted searches against an Uttar Pradesh-based realty group as part ...Read More >
A social activist named Jayanth, from Ichlampady village in Puttur taluk, has claimed that he witnessed the burial of the decomposed body of a teenage girl in Dharmasthala-Ujire 15 years ago. A second witness has emerged in the mass burials case in Karnataka's Dharmasthala. According to The News Minute, a man claimed to have witnessed the body of a girl being buried in violation of procedure 15 years ago. A social activist named Jayanth, from Ichlampady village in Puttur taluk, has claimed tha ...Read More >
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has clarified that the initial sketches of the suspects, released by the Jammu and Kashmir Police after the Pahalgam terror attack, were mistakenly linked to a past shootout, and the real perpetrators of the attack were different individuals, as per the report released by the security agencies. Last week, the security forces eliminated three terrorists, including the mastermind of the April 22 Pahalgam attack, during Operation Mahadev on the outskirts of ...Read More >
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday backed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for calling out the Delhi police for allegedly referring to Bengali as a Bangladeshi language, labelling it a "direct insult to the very language in which the National Anthem is composed." Stalin said such remarks were not "inadvertent errors" but a reflection of a regime that undermines India's linguistic diversity. "The Delhi Police, under the Union Home Ministry, has described Bengali as ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): A robbery took place at a jewellery shop in Chand Bagh, northeast Delhi, where 4 to 5 men looted cash and jewellery at gunpoint. According to Delhi Police, a robbery incident at a jewellery shop at Chand Bagh was reported at PS Dayalpur. Immediately, a team reached the spot where the complainant, Sadiq, aged 27 years, reported that while he was attending to a customer, 4 to 5 people entered his shop and pulled down the shutter. They robbed cash and jewellery ...Read More >
Dibrugarh: A local businessman was allegedly murdered in a plot orchestrated by his wife Bobby Gogoi and teenage daughter in the Barbaruah area of Dibrugarh. The mother-daughter duo, along with two others -- identified as Dipjyoti Buragohain (21) and his accomplice, a minor (17) -- were arrested by police on Sunday morning, eight days after the crime.The victim, Uttam Gogoi (52), a resident of Lahon Gaon in Barbaruah, was found dead at his residence on July 25. What initially appeared to be a ro ...Read More >
BENGALURU: The Maharashtra government fears that increase in height of Alamatti reservoir in Bagalkot district of Karnataka from 519.60 meters to 524.256 meters would result in flooding of Sangli, Satara and Kolhapur districts owing to backwaters and there is no need for the Maharashtra government to fear flooding since its own expert committee led by retired Principal Secretary to Irrigation department Nandkumar Wadnekar ruled out flooding from the Almatti and Hipparagi reservoirs, stated Minis ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): The Delhi Crime Branch has solved a year-old blind murder case with the arrest of a woman and her boyfriend for conspiring to kill her husband and disposing of his body in Haryana Sonipat, officials said on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Soniya (34), a resident of Delhi Alipur, and her partner Rohit, a resident of Jaji village in Sonipat. According to Crime Branch officials, the case dates back to July 2024, when the decomposed body of an unident ...Read More >
Srinagar, Aug 3 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday expressed condolences on the untimely demise of daughter of Udhampur SSP Amod Nagpure Ashok. Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chief Ghulam Nabi Azad also condoled the death, saying "there can be no greater pain for a parent than losing a child". In a message, LG Sinha said, "Shocked and heartbroken by the tragic news of the passing of the daughter of SSP Udhampur Shri Amod ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): The Delhi Crime Branch has solved a year-old blind murder case with the arrest of a woman and her boyfriend for conspiring to kill her husband and disposing of his body in Haryana's Sonipat, officials said on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Soniya (34), a resident of Delhi's Alipur, and her partner Rohit, a resident of Jaji village in Sonipat. Also Read | US: Indian-Origin New Ohio Solicitor General Mathura Sridharan Faces Backlash and Racist Comm ...Read More >
Mangaluru: A man has come forward with a complaint before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) -- probing the alleged mass burials in Dharmasthala -- claiming to provide details in connection with the murder of a minor girl nearly 15 years ago.Jayanth T told reporters: "I came forward to file a complaint in connection with the murder of a minor girl, which I witnessed around 15 years ago. No FIR was registered then, and the body was buried without investigation. I have now submitted a formal com ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said that India's first bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad will commence operations "very soon," and it will reduce travel time between the two cities to just 2 hours and 7 minutes. Talking to reporters at the Bhavnagar terminus in Gujarat, after virtually flagging off three trains: the Ayodhya Express, Rewa-Pune Express, and Jabalpur-Raipur Express, Vaishnaw stated that the bullet train project is moving quick ...Read More >
Bengaluru, August 03: A disturbing case of sexual assault has emerged from Bengaluru, where a college student was allegedly raped by the owner of the Paying Guest (PG) accommodation she had moved into just ten days prior. The accused, identified as Ashraf, allegedly lured the young woman out of the premises late Saturday night and drove her to a secluded location, where he is reported to have sexually assaulted her, according to the victim's police complaint. Police said the incident came to li ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): One man died and another was injured after a car caught fire following an accident near Jhanda Chowk on Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II) in Delhi's Hulambi Khurd area in the early hours of Sunday, according to Delhi Police. The deceased has been identified as Vipender, a 40-year-old resident of Puther village in Panipat district, Haryana. The injured person has been identified as Jagbir, also aged 40 and a resident of Ishrana village in the same district. The ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): One man died and another was injured after a car caught fire following an accident near Jhanda Chowk on Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II) in Delhi's Hulambi Khurd area in the early hours of Sunday, according to Delhi Police. The deceased has been identified as Vipender, a 40-year-old resident of Puther village in Panipat district, Haryana. The injured person has been identified as Jagbir, also aged 40 and a resident of Ishrana village in the same district. Als ...Read More >
The chief of India's markets regulator on Friday called for a stronger financial oversight across the country's booming capital markets, urging auditors, directors and governance professionals to act as gatekeepers against potential fraud. "It is your vigilance, your courage to ask difficult questions and your refusal to look away that will ensure our markets continue to command global trust," Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chairperson Tuhin Kanta Pandey said at an event. The fu ...Read More >
Prajwal Revanna was arrested on May 31, 2024, upon returning to India after nearly five weeks overseas. The case gained national attention after pen drives containing explicit videos allegedly involving him surfaced in Hassan and other areas just before the April 26 Lok Sabha polls. He lost the election as the NDA candidate from Hassan. A special court for elected representatives in Bengaluru on Friday convicted former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna in a rape and sexual harassment case. Special Cour ...Read More >
It was around 10 pm (Monday) when the Chandigarh Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) director Dr Sukhminder Kaur received an important call from power corridors in New Delhi. She was told to assemble her 'A-Team'. The assignment was big. A package was arriving from Srinagar on a special flight that would land around midnight. On board were weapons seized from three terrorists gunned down in the Dachigam encounter. The job was clear: Find out a link between the slain terrorists and the Pah ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, India: Three suspected militants killed in a July 28 gunbattle near Srinagar were behind the deadly Pahalgam attack that left 26 civilians dead earlier this year, India's Home Minister Amit Shah announced in Parliament on July 29. All three men -- identified as Pakistani nationals and top operatives of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group -- were killed in a joint operation involving the Indian Army, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and Jammu and Kashmir Police. Speaking in the Lok Sabha du ...Read More >
Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections rose 7.5 per cent year-on-year to Rs 1.96 lakh crore in July (for sales in June), data released by the government on Friday showed. Even though the pace of growth in gross GST collections picked up to 7.5 per cent in July from 6.2 per cent, this is the second consecutive month wherein the growth rate has been in single digits and much lower after posting double-digit growth in the first two months of the ongoing financial year. ARTICLE CONTINUES BE ...Read More >
Patna, Aug 1 (PTI) Healthcare services were affected at AIIMS-Patna on Friday as resident doctors went on an "indefinite strike" in protest against the alleged high-handedness of Sheohar MLA Chetan Anand. According to a press statement issued by the Resident Doctors' Association (RDA), AIIMS-Patna, on Friday, "The RDA expresses deep disappointment and anguish over the lack of action by the administration following the violent and traumatic incident that occurred on Wednesday, when MLA Chetan An ...Read More >
Mangaluru: The special investigation team (SIT) probing the alleged mass burials near Dharmasthala continued with its exhumation work for the fourth consecutive day on Friday. Despite digging at two more spots identified by the complainant-witness, no human remains were found.This brings the total number of sites searched so far to eight, including site No. 7 and 8 on Friday. Partial skeletal remains were from at site No 6 on Thursday, after SIT mapped 13 locations on Monday for exhumation work. ...Read More >
Moradabad (UP), Aug 1 (PTI) The Moradabad district administration has cancelled the allotment of a government bungalow granted to former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. The Samajwadi Party (SP) has been asked to vacate the premises within 30 days. The bungalow, located in the posh Civil Lines area near the Police Training College (PTC II), was allotted to the SP patriarch 31 years ago. Spread across nearly 1,000 square meters on Nazul land, the property serves as the local S ...Read More >
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